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Olson, Lynn – Education Week, 2004
The history of value-added methods in Britain dates back at least to 1982. That is when a handful of secondary schools in northeast England agreed to share data, on a confidential basis, about how much progress they were making in getting students to pass the A-level examinations required to enter universities. At least three methods of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Educational History, Secondary Schools